Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, a modern American classic, starring Tallulah Bankhead, premiered with great success in 1939 and went on to be filmed in 1941 with Bette Davis. It is regularly reviv ...
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The music, the lyrics, the book and the orchestrations are all by Dave Malloy. The book is based on 70 pages in Leo Tolstoy’s massive War and Peace, which he first read when he was 30 and thought a pe ...
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30 years on, its erotic impact is undiminished. In 1995 Matthew Bourne took a traditional ballet and its classical score and made it contemporary. Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is a landmark in English b ...
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Mel Brooks, a past-master at bad taste and political incorrectness, is famous for two American cult films, Blazing Saddles, a wonderful spoof on Westerns, and The Producers, a wonderful spoof on Broad ...
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